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[NickFitz]

The bicycle has been activated! Just to pop round the corner to get the monthly prescription, but it's a nice day for it

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, I finally got around to making use of the Madhur Jaffrey cookbook I bought a while ago. I went for a chicken, tomato and garam masala thing - lots of other spices and stuff in it too, but for some reason those are the tings that get into the title. Anyway, it was extremely nice with some plain rice

No naan because I forgot to buy any. I suppose I should learn how to make them too

This was accompanied by the Gloucestershire Police night shift thing, as a new episode of that has suddenly popped up long after the rest of the most recent season had been shown

[WTFH]

All pond plants relocated, the algae/sediment has been removed from the pond and it’s now drying out. I’ve not worked out how to remove the Vulcanate? plug, but I’ll leave it for now. Clean the whole thing out, put down a liner (Screwfix is £10 cheaper than B&Q for exactly the same sheet), and then wait for the rain. None currently forecast for at least a fortnight.
Some of the garden has been watered using the hose, even the olive trees were suffering.

Now TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

Another chapter of The Nazi Mind has been read

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^Showoff, I'm lucky to make a page or two of the Heinlein tomes, however the Le Carre has burst back into life with 30 pages or so. Nice place that Panama, especially for tailors. No mention for tinkers or soldiers though.

Morning.

Wednesday. More or Less day on R4.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 20.3 deg, 21.5 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto.

1015.5 mBar, 29.987 in Hg, 761.7 Torr, 14.73 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 30th of January 2020 BR14 was fighting officialdom plus the aptly named CRAPita at the local council re the demented one, NF rather looked forward to watching "Red Joan" (the Melita Norwood sort of thing), Brillo popped in Scruff was pissed off with the lying Tory chancellor (par for the course really: other lying chancellors are available), whilst WTFH had also submitted a tax return, NF did the mundane washing & was awarded a badge by SimonMac to celebrate the fact.

More potching in the garage. Stone me there's a lot of nuts & bolts & electronic crap. Must have got the world stocks of carbon composition resistors.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the thing about the secret painter on R4 at 11:45.

More potching in the garage whilst the temperature was reasonable plus some gardening that's ended up with yet another giant pile of brambles ready for the next bonfire.

The last bonfire was so hot & so sustained that it melted a foot off the aluminium pole that once, long long ago, was part of a very expensive FM aerial, needed in those far off days for the reception of Radio 4 FM from across the water, this side being blessed with the benighted Radio Wales/Cymru which was endlessly guaranteed to not be broadcasting the thing you wanted to listen to, in a similar way to Star Trek(tm) being replaced with some fecking rugby programme.

I recall driving to a high point across the valley with a group C tv aerial & a battery telly so I could watch some other programme or other that the wchytwch brigade weren't showing. Probably "7 Days" IIRC.

Now getting outside a mediocre cup of coffee after a quick swill to get some of the dirt off.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Haven't had the carrot & parsnip one for a while: its BBE was almost up. .

Entertainment: PM.

Thing about the Bruneval Raid in 1942 on the Wurzberg radar site. Went into the history of the Knickebein system, the Freya radar, X-gerat, etc. No mention of R. V. Jones.

Maigret and the Princess. More Bruno Cremer & his peep.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a grey start out and quite mild at 15°C, but don't be fooled, for it intends to get to 25° by late afternoon as it build up to the now-traditional weekend heatwave that will see us getting 29° highs. The barometers are up to 1009/1017mB

Only fourteen more working days on this project!

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc. Already quite warm. Pleasant walk earlier with a good number of steps. Now wearing my shorts while sitting at my desk.

[xoggoth]

Been doing a few boring DIY jobs this morning. Little book reading thing later, I have actually read a book for a change! Nowt else on today apart from walky.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Mostly cloudy but there's enough gaps to make it feel sunny. Currently 23 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 26 expected. Small chance of a shower. Barometer up to 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 04:55; Sunset 21:17 BST

Not feeling very well today. Up in the wee hours with a dodgy tum and whilst that's settled down, I'm left with an annoying type of headache that feels like an occasional sharp stab in the back of my head. Had a lie down for an hour to try and improve things but there's billing to be done, so back at the coal face I am.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Sainsbury's steak slice

Sunny out, and expected to reach 25°C soon. But there's a bit of a breeze as well